Among the top 100 (clockwise from top left): Michael Jefferson, Barbara Fair, Gary Winfield, Erik Clemons, Khalilah Brown-Dean, Marcella Nunez Smith.
Almost a quarter of the state’s most influential Black people wield that influence from right here in New Haven.
That’s one takeaway from the newest list of the “100 Most Influential Blacks in Connecticut.”
The list is prepared by the state NAACP, which will honor the movers and shakers at an Oct. 23 event held at Foxwoods Resort Casino. Twenty-four New Haveners show up among the 100. Read the full list here.
Following are the New Haveners on the list:
• Barbara Fair, civil rights activist
• Carlton Highsmith, ConnCAT board chair
• David Addams, executive director, William Graustein Memorial Fund
• Deborah Stanley McAulay, chief diversity officer, Yale University
• Donald McAulay, associate deputy director, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
• Iline Tracey, New Haven public schools superintendent
• Karen DuBois-Walton, executive director, Housing Authority of New Haven
• Keith B. Churchwell, Yale New Haven Hospital president
• Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Quinnipiac University associate provost; host, WNPR’s “Disrupted”
• Marcella Nunez-Smith, White House Task Force health equity member
• Earnest Pagan, business representative, North Atlantic States Council of Carpenters Union
• Erik Clemons, ConnCORP executive chairman
• State Sen. Gary A. Winfield
• Probate Judge Clifton Graves
• Flemming Norcott, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven chair, retired state Supreme Court justice
• Howard K. Hill, funeral home owner, chair of Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce
• New Haven Fire Chief John A. Alston
• Civil rights attorney Michael Jefferson
• Michael R. Taylor, Cornell Scott Hill Health Center CEO
• State Rep. Robyn A. Porter
• Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins
• Shenae Draughn, senior vice-president, Housing Authority of New Haven
• State Rep. Toni E. Walker
• New Haven Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers